online gameplay

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Hello "EnenDaveyBoy"

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Ever since a highly anticipated game was just released recently, I noticed that the server connectivity of Destiny jumped from good to amazing

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Can you guess what game I'm refering to?

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Have a nice day or afternoon or night "EnenDaveyBoy"

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Hello "EnenDaveyBoy"

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If Destiny isn't on dedicated servers, how is it that the connection to the game is good (given the occassional errors here and there)?

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Have a nice day or afternoon or night "EnenDaveyBoy"

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I may end up buying the Xone, as i do like Halo. And thanks to Blue Illusion,(and alot of reading) i learned that not all games played on a MS system use Ms servers. I really do enjoy the COD series, as the actual game is pretty good as a 1st person shooter...It
is disappointing that Act/Trey Built a nice series, and use the crappy P2P player host system, im old, and i do understand its all about revenue, but ***...they have made bukoos more than enough to implement dedicated servers for BO3, and possibly continuing
COD games... I understand there will always be a certain amount of latency issues with online gaming, but dedicated servers do make a vast improvement. As a personal thought: to make online gaming the best possible, if MS etc. would run ping/latency tests
on players as they logged in, so they would be be matched with players as closely as possible... Been playing some Bo2 Deathmatch again, and 80/90% of all my games have noticeable lag issues, Host migration, due to them being slowed down to the point of horrible
game play. Like i said, i would much rather have alot smaller playing field, and better games, than to be matched with player in Canada, or Cali, as im on the southern east coast...You know the Ping numbers are off the charts..

I don't think TMCC is all that great to use as an example for online play. Simply because it had enough bugs of its own and not everyone may understand what is game related and what would be network related. lol >.<

Another common misunderstanding about dedicated servers is that they 'fix' lag. I think most people understand that they reduce lag, not fix it. But I think that a lot of people think that it means everyone experiences the same [reduced] lag, which isn't
the case.

Bad connection is bad... someone with a poor connection to a dedicated server will still have lag. The difference is that there's zero chance that person will be host and everyone will experience lag that is directly based upon their independent connection
to the server. Even a slightly laggy connection will 'feel' more stable in that case, though, because there isn't a randomly changing connection to a new host that may or may not be better or worse than the previous one.

Another fun fact about online gaming... video games have built in lag compensation. A few years back (not sure how many) I saw a short video that basically explained how CoDs lag compensation code worked... and called it out for not being very reliable,
especially for a 'twitch shooter'. Makes me wonder how many people have blamed lag and servers for something that is actually a part of the game engine itself?

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Hello everyone

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Dedicated servers are awesome

I remember playing Halo 4 Spartan Ops on the Xbox 360 without dedicated servers and it is such a massive difference LOL

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Have a nice day or afternoon or ngiht everyone

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